Meanings
- not comparableNot any more; no further.
There's no more wine.
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Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff. It's far from 'no more action'.
2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31 - idiomaticnot comparableDead, no longer in existence.
The USSR is no more.
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She held him until he was no more.
In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.
1958 July 28, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese)
- idiomaticnot comparableNo longer; not any more.
I will pay no more today.
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He will bother you no more.
If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen, No more will he wander Lochaber again.
1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper - datednot comparableEqually not; not either.
- I can't swim. - No more can I.
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You could no more climb that fence than fly!
- Stop it! Don't continue!
The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.
2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams
plural no mores
- idiomaticrareSomething that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen1 more example
We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.
2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbnot now
adverbreferring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishnā māre
- Middle Englishno more
- Englishno more
From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek οὐκέτι, μηκέτι
- οὐκέτι (oukéti)not any longer
- μηκέτι (mēkéti)not any longer
Czech už ne
- už nenot any longer
Dutch niet meer
- niet meernot any longer
Esperanto ne plu
- ne plunot any longer
Finnish enää
- enäänot any longer
French plus
- plusnot any longer
German nicht mehr, nimmer
- nicht mehrnot any longer
- nimmernot any longer
Italian non più
- non piùnot any longer
Latin non iam
- non iamnot any longer
Polish już nie
- już nienot any longer
Romanian nu mai
- nu mainot any longer
Swedish inte mer, inget mer
- inte mernot any longer
- inget mernot any longer
Yiddish מער נישט
- מער נישט (mer nisht)not any longer
Cite this entry
no more. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20more
“no more.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20more. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “no more,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20more.
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